State Education Data Center

The State Education Data Center (SEDC) is a service of the Council of Chief State School Officers, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of the Council’s National Education Data Partnership. The SEDC will position itself as a leading voice on public education data and will focus on two work strands: (1) serving as a national advocacy leader for quality education data collection, standards, and use; and (2) serving as the nation’s provider of a free, easy-to-use website featuring state education data and analytic tools. Through the SEDC: State education data will be collected and displayed on a user-friendly, publicly accessible website available at SchoolDataDirect.org. Also, researchers will be able to download files containing the data directly from the website’s database. Standard & Poor’s is the service provider for this effort. The Coordinated Data Ask (CDA) will provide states and data collectors with a unified data collection template that, for the first time, identifies the most commonly requested education data elements and their agreed upon definitions. The elements included in the template have been crosswalked to the 2006-07 EDFacts data groups and to SIF objects. Most (and eventually all) of the elements can be downloaded directly from SchoolDataDirect.org. The CDA is a collaborative effort with the Data Quality Campaign and the U.S. Department of Education. An advisory council of chiefs, national data collectors, and national education policy organizations will refine and enhance the national conversation on the appropriate collection, use, and analysis of state education data. The work of the advisory council will help position the SEDC as a sustainable national resource to support public education. The Council’s Education Information Management Advisory Consortium (EIMAC) will serve as a resource to the SEDC in advising on common data standards and data collection and use methods at the national level. Data collection efforts of the SEDC will be coordinated with the EDFacts initiative of the U.S. Department of Education. Visit SchoolDataDirect.org and download comprehensive, free state education data. SchoolDataDirect.org provides current and historical data as well as the tools you need to inform decisions, drive reform, and conduct quality research on public schools and districts — from a single website. History The State Education Data Center was officially launched on October 2, 2007 with a reception at the Hotel George in Washington, DC. Over 50 people from the private and public education organizations attended this reception and learned more about the State Education Data Center and SchoolDataDirect.org. SchoolDataDirect.org Exhibit Schedule, 2008 SEDC staff is spreading the word about the SchoolDataDirect.org website through a variety of means. One of the main ways they are doing this is through exhibiting at various conferences throughout the country. If you are planning to attend one or more of the meetings listed below, be sure to stop by the SchoolDataDirect.org booth! American Association of School Administrators: National Conference on Education (Tampa, FL) – February 15-16, 2008 American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (New York, NY) – March 25-27, 2008 Council of Chief State School Officers: National Conference on Student Assessment (Orlando, FL) – June 16-18, 2008 National Alliance for Public Charter Schools: National Charter Schools Conference (New Orleans, LA) – June 23-24, 2008 National Conference of State Legislatures: Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA) – July 23-25, 2008 Advisory Council The State Education Data Center is lead by a nine member Advisory Council and four member ex-officio body consisting of leaders in public and private education organizations. Click here to find out more about the Advisory Council. Important Documents SchoolDataDirect.org Download Instructions Information Card on SchoolDataDirect.org SchoolDataDirect.org Linking Policy Press Release – CCSSO Launches SchoolDataDirect Website with Data Download Tool Project Staff Chris Lohse, Strategic Initiative Director, Data Policy and Research, chrisl@ccsso.org Marci Giang, Sr. Asssociate, marcig@ccsso.org

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document last updated 7/30/2009